San Francisco runs on transit. Every morning, the city’s pulse flows through its veins: buses, streetcars, and trains. This network is more than just transportation, it represents the motion of our daily lives, how our nurses, teachers, builders, and clerks reach their posts to keep the city living and growing.
But that heartbeat is now faltering. The system that carries us through our daily grind, is being starved of resources. The SFMTA faces a $300+ million shortfall, and this year, our new mayor, Daniel Lurie, has cut Muni service on essential routes like the 5 Fulton, 9 San Bruno, and 31 Balboa. Meanwhile, BART confronts a catastrophic $400 million deficit that threatens night and weekend service. A city without reliable transit simply cannot and will not function.
These cuts fall hardest on those who already carry the city: working-class families, elders, students, and immigrants. For those who rely on transit, “service reductions” mean lost hours, lost wages, and closed doors.
For years, transportation network companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft have clogged our streets. According to the SFCTA’s 2018 report “TNCs & Congestion”, TNCs contributed approximately 50% of the overall increase in traffic congestion in San Francisco between 2010 and 2016.
Time and again, working people have been left hanging by politicians who spend endlessly on budget items like excessive police overtime or the ballooning budgets for the sheriff and DA’s office. Funding for fare enforcement has increased but not for transit itself, with fines disproportionately extracted from minorities. Meanwhile, Muni drivers must fight for their right to simply use the bathroom during their shift. City Hall is committed to spending public funds on punitive measures rather than vital services.
Transit is not a luxury we indulge in, it is a fundamental public service. And now, Mayor Lurie’s solution to this crisis? Allowing Waymos, Ubers, and Lyfts on what was supposed to be a Car-Free Market Street—a hard-won public safety initiative. These same corporations funneled massive amounts of money into opposing Prop L in 2024, which would have funded transit services through a tax on their operations. Now, a wealthy mayor, insulated from the working class and our reliance on public transit, is offering expensive, private luxury ride-hails as a substitute for affordable public transportation.
The question before us is simple: will we allow public transit to be dismantled piece by piece? Or will we come together to defend it, demand investment, and build the future our communities deserve?
The answer will not come from above. It must come from us: the riders, the drivers, the workers, the people who make this city move. San Francisco can be a city that moves together, or it can be a city that leaves us behind. The choice is ours.
If you want to fight for public transit for the working class, join DSA. See you at the bus stop!
🌹Tuesday, September 30 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM): ICE Out of SF Courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery)
🌹Tuesday, September 30 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Immigrant Justice Healing Circle (In person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Wednesday, October 1 (6:30 PM – 9:00 PM): 🐣 New Member Happy Hour (In person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia)
🌹 Thursday, October 2 (7:30 PM – 9:30 PM): TOWG Reading Group: “Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco” (In person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹Friday, October 3 (8:00 AM – 4:30 PM): ICE Out of SF Courts! (In person at 100 Montgomery)
🌹 Friday, October 3 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM): Municipal Social Housing: Learning from Seattle’s Win (518 Valencia)
Check out https://dev.dsasf.org/events for more events and updates. Events with a 🐣 are especially new-member-friendly!
ICE Out of SF Courts!
Join neighbors, activists, grassroots organizations in resisting ICE abductions happening at immigration court hearings! ICE is taking anyone indiscriminately in order to meet their daily quotas. Many of those taken include people with no removal proceedings.
We’ll be meeting every Tuesday and Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM at Immigration Court at 100 Montgomery. We need all hands on deck. The 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM window is when we most need to boost turnout, but if you can’t make that please come whenever works for you. 1 or 2 hours or the entire time! We’re also holding orientation sessions for folks, but that is not required to attend. See the 🐣 Immigrant Justice Court Action Orientation event for more details.
Municipal Social Housing: Learning from Seattle’s Win
Two DSA SF-backed ballot props in 2020 were meant to enable and fund social housing, but mayoral opposition has blocked the funds being spent for that purpose. Seattle’s victory offers a lesson in how we might beat that blockage. In February, Seattle’s House Our Neighbors passed a ballot proposition with dedicated funds for a social housing developer. The campaign won by 26 points over opposition from Seattle’s mayor and most of their city council.
Join us at 518 Valencia on Friday, October 3 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM for a conversation with Seattle organizer Eric Lee (House Our Neighbors, Seattle DSA) and our own Shanti Singh (Tenants Together, DSA SF).
At least 280 shipments have left the Oakland Airport in the first 6 months of this year, carrying deadly military cargo to maintain Israel’s F-35 fleet. On Saturday, October 4th at 1:00 PM, we’ll link arms at Oscar Grant Plaza in Oakland and re-energize ourselves for the fight ahead and demand killer cargo out of OAK! If you’d like to join the DSA contingent, check out the #palestine-solidarity Slack channel.
DSA SF x EBDSA: No Space for ICE Canvassing in SF Chinatown
The DSA SF Immigrant Justice Working Group and East Bay DSA Migrant Defense Working Group are leaving No Space for ICE! Join us on Saturday, October 4, at 1:00 PM to distribute red cards and other Know Your Rights materials to businesses and community members in SF Chinatown. We will meet at Portsmouth Square Park to share materials and train before we canvass. You can RSVP for the event here! Wear DSA merch if you can, or put a DSA pin on a visible part of your clothing.
New to canvassing? No worries! There will be a brief how-to training before we go out in pairs or small groups.
Steal This Story, Please! at the Roxie
DSA SF is proud to be a community partner with the Bay Area Premiere of Steal This Story, Please!, a documentary about award-winning journalist and host of Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman. The film will be playing on Saturday, October 4th from 4:00 PM to 6:30 PM at the Roxie Theater. Expected guests include Amy Goodman and the directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin.
Steal This Story, Please! is a gripping portrait of the trailblazer whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the front lines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!, Goodman broadcasts stories and voices routinely silenced by commercial media. Get your tickets here!
📖 DSA SF Homelessness Working Group Reads: Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell
Join DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group as we read through Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell. We’ll be meeting every other Sunday evening starting in September for 4 or 5 sessions at 1916 McAllister. The next session is Sunday, October 5. For more info, register here: bit.ly/martacdand check the events calendar for latest details.
Save the Date📆: Palestine Study – Understanding Zionism and Imperialism for Palestine Liberation
What does socialism have to do with Palestine? What did the founding of Israel really look like? How do we fight the genocide in Gaza here in the Bay Area? Join DSA SF on Sunday, October 19th from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM for the upcoming Palestine Study exploring the foundations of Zionism and how we fight imperialism for Palestinian liberation.
🐣 Immigrant Justice Court Action Orientation
Come one, come all to 1916 McAllister St for our court watch orientation! You’ll learn how we are resisting ICE , how you can help, and participate in a biweekly art build. Bring questions and anti-ICE slogans! This event will take place every other week on Thursdays starting at 7:00 PM and the next one is October 9th!
📖 DSA SF Tenant Organizing Reading Group – “Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco”
San Francisco has always had an affordable housing shortage, but solutions outside of the private sector have long been neglected or overlooked. Join us as we learn about the history of one proposed solution: public housing.
Our four-part reading group will meet every other Thursday at 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM hybrid in person at 1916 McAllister and Zoom with RSVP to discuss John Baranski’s book “Housing the City by the Bay”. The next meeting will be Thursday, October 2nd.
The Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC) regularly rotates duties among chapter members. This allows us to train new members in key duties that help keep the chapter running like organizing chapter meetings, keeping records updated, office cleanup, updating the DSA SF website and publishing the weekly newsletter. Members can view current CCC rotations.
Interested in helping with the newsletter or other day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running? Fill out the CCC help form.
🌹 Tuesday, September 30 (6:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Immigrant Justice Healing Circle (in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Wednesday, October 1 (6:30 PM – 9:00 PM): 🐣 New Member Happy Hour (in person at Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia)
🌹 Thursday, October 2 (7:30 PM – 9:30 PM): “Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco” – TOWG Reading Group (in person at 1916 McAllister St)
🌹 Friday, October 3 (6:30 PM – 8:00 PM): Social Housing Q&A with Seattle Organizer(s) (location TBD)
Check out https://dev.dsasf.org/events for more events and updates. Events with a 🐣 are especially new-member-friendly!
ICE Out of SF Courts!
Join neighbors, activists, grassroots organizations in resisting ICE abductions happening at immigration court hearings! ICE is taking anyone indiscriminately in order to meet their daily quotas. Many of those taken include people with no removal proceedings.
We’ll be meeting every Tuesday and Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM at Immigration Court at 100 Montgomery. We need all hands on deck. The 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM window is when we most need to boost turnout, but if you can’t make that please come whenever works for you. 1 or 2 hours or the entire time! We’re also holding orientation sessions for folks, but that is not required to attend. See the 🐣 Immigrant Justice Court Action Orientation event for more details.
EWOC: Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is running a Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing course weekly in September (see below for schedule). Just like we did back in May, we’re getting a group to take the course together and benefit from in-person discussions and activities (at 1916 McAllister). If you’re interested, RSVP here! The goal is to have more people learn organizing skills, both for your own projects and for organizing with EWOC. The final session is from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM onMonday, September 29.
📖 DSA SF Homelessness Working Group Reads: Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell
Join DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group as we read through Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell. We’ll be meeting every other Sunday evening starting in September for 4 or 5 sessions at 1916 McAllister. The next session is Sunday, October 5. For more info, register here: bit.ly/martacdand check the events calendar for latest details.
Keep Market Street Moving Flyering
Stop the corporate takeover of Market Street! Help spread the word by handing out flyers. All materials provided, just show up!
Join us this Wednesday, September 24th at 5:00 to 6:30 PM at Market St & Davis St. RSVP here!
Tech Reading Group with Kickstarter Union Founder Clarissa Redwine
Come join DSA SF and Rideshare Drivers United on Wednesday, September 24 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at 1916 McAllister for our monthly tech reading group. We’ll be reading an article by Clarissa Redwine about the Kickstarter Union Campaign that started in 2016. Clarissa will also be making an appearance on Zoom to answer questions about her experience. RSVP here!
Bay Area Palestine Solidarity Reflection and Planning
Missed the People’s Conference for Palestine? Join the Palestinian Youth Movement’s report back on Thursday, September 25th at 6:00 PM at La Peña Cultural Center (3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA)
At the end of August, DSA SF sent five delegates to the historic second People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit. On Thursday September 25th, join Bay Area comrades for Palestine Solidarity to reflect and build on the lessons of the conference.
📍 La Peña Cultural Center (3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, CA) 📅 Thursday, September 25 ⏰ 6:00 PM
This will be an open space of reflection, discussion, and collective planning on how to bring the energy, strategy, and tools from Detroit back home to strengthen our organizing in the Bay Area. Our siblings in Gaza continue to endure bombardment, famine, and occupation. It is our duty to channel the momentum of the conference into action: to confront genocide, challenge imperialism, and grow a movement capable of transforming the conditions that allow this genocide.
🐣 Immigrant Justice Court Action Orientation
Come one, come all to 1916 McAllister St for our court watch orientation! You’ll learn how we are resisting ICE , how you can help, and participate in a biweekly art build. Bring questions and anti-ICE slogans! This event will take place every-other week on Thursday’s starting at 7:00 PM and the next one is September 25!
Kashmir: Partition, Nationalism, and Global Fascism
Nationalism is rising all over the world, and violence as always is accompanying it. Nowhere is the genocidal logic of the nation-state more evident than in Israel’s occupation of Palestine, but it is not the only example that we must learn from. The Partition of India in 1947 and subsequent conflicts in South Asia have many similarities, and some important differences. Come join the DSA SF as we investigate the Kashmir Conflict, which flared up violently this spring, and its relationship to Hindu nationalism and the global fascist movement. We’ll be meeting Friday, September 26 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM at 1916 McAllister St.
Apartheid-Free Bay Area Consumer Canvass
Let’s build public support for stores that have pledged to go apartheid-free this Saturday, September 27 from 11:00 AM-1:00 PM! We’ll meet at Dolores Park on 18th St and Dolores St.
We will first train you, and then you will put that training into practice by collecting signatures in Dolores Park. RSVP here!
Emergency Tenant Organizing Training
This month the comrades in the Tenant’s Organizing Working Group have been attending the Fall 2025 Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee (ETOC) training, offered by the DSA Housing Justice Commission!
In the last ETOC session, comrades learned about the specific tools and techniques that could be used to begin organizing a tenants’ association campaign, how to plan escalation actions to get demands met, and how to successfully keep campaigns from losing momentum.
We hope to see you join us for the upcoming ETOC session 4 on Saturday, September 27 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM either remotely via Zoom or at our watch party at 399 Webster St. at the Embassy. There will be snacks! All are welcome! RSVP here.
Please get in touch with us at tenants@dsasf.org if you’d like to explore the ETOC materials.
Market Street Transit History Tour
This transit month, join our Ecosocialist Working Group as we explore Market Street, San Francisco’s main boulevard, through a socialist lens — who controlled the streets, and for what purpose?
We will be meeting at The Ferry Building on Sunday, September 28 at 2 PM. RSVP here!
📖 DSA SF Tenant Organizing Reading Group – “Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco”
San Francisco has always had an affordable housing shortage, but solutions outside of the private sector have long been neglected or overlooked. Join us as we learn about the history of one proposed solution: public housing.
Our four-part reading group will meet every other Thursday at 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM hybrid in person at 1916 McAllister and Zoom with RSVP to discuss John Baranski’s book “Housing the City by the Bay”. The next meeting will be Thursday, October 2nd.
The Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC) regularly rotates duties among chapter members. This allows us to train new members in key duties that help keep the chapter running like organizing chapter meetings, keeping records updated, office cleanup, updating the DSA SF website and publishing the weekly newsletter. Members can view current CCC rotations.
Interested in helping with the newsletter or other day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running? Fill out the CCC help form.
This week, the residents of the Sunset District removed Joel Engardio from the Board of Supervisors. DSA SF didn’t lead the recall, but we didn’t try to stop it. Engardio is anti-worker, pro-cop, landlord-first, and fully backed by GrowSF and the real estate elite. He ignored the demands of working-class residents and DSA members in D4. He has been a mouthpiece for the owning class, and we won’t be sad when he’s gone. Good riddance.
Joel Engardio never represented the working class. In his three years in office, he introduced a paltry 32 pieces of legislation (DSA SF member and D9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder has already authored 21 pieces in her 10 months in office), none of which addressed the affordability crisis strangling this city’s working families. Instead, he backed a budget that cut funding for violence prevention in the Mission, slashed emergency shelter for survivors of domestic violence, defunded immigrant legal services, and eliminated good, unionized city jobs.
While working-class people are struggling to survive, Engardio pushed for money to pad the pockets of the police. He backed increased overtime for SFPD just months after an independent audit found a pattern of rampant abuse of overtime funds by the cops.
He voted to strip money from Prop C (Our City, our Home), directly undermining the will of the voters and reducing the city’s ability to build desperately needed affordable housing. Capitalism cannot solve the housing crisis, and Engardio’s votes have made it worse.
As Engardio is well aware, the right to recall is not just a procedural tool, it’s a weapon. And like any weapon, it must be wielded with discipline. We believe it belongs in the hands of the working class, and the working class alone.
We’ve seen how recalls can be used as weapons by the right. Just ask our comrades in Seattle, where big business tried (And failed! Three times!) to unseat Kshama Sawant. These efforts failed because she was deeply rooted in labor and class struggle.
A recall against a socialist organizer is an attack on the people, and the people will respond. A recall against a reactionary with no genuine base? That’s a very different story.
Unfortunately, our billionaire Mayor Lurie will not replace Engardio with a champion of the working class. But to whoever does get appointed, may you learn from Joel’s sorry tale: If you stand for nothing, nobody will have your back.
If you want to build a working class movement with substance, join DSA.
Check out https://dev.dsasf.org/events for more events and updates. Events with a 🐣 are especially new-member-friendly!
This is the Last Chance to Stop AB 715
AB 715 is an extremely dangerous bill designed to censor any criticism of Israel and education about Palestine in California schools, by framing it as antisemitic.
On Friday, after a long week of mobilization to oppose the bill, it passed both Senate and Assembly chambers and will now head to California Governor Newsom’s desk.
We need to bombard his office with letters and calls of opposition!
Call Newsom’s office during business hours: (916) 445-2841
You can follow this sample script: “I am calling the Governor to strongly oppose AB 715, a dangerous and discriminatory bill aimed at silencing and censoring any teaching of Palestine and Palestinians under the guise of antisemitism.”
Let’s support Palestinian students and teachers in the classroom from being silenced and censored! Please share with friends, family, neighbors to do the same!
ICE Out of SF Courts!
Join neighbors, activists, grassroots organizations in resisting ICE abductions happening at immigration court hearings! ICE is taking anyone indiscriminately in order to meet their daily quotas. Many of those taken include people with no removal proceedings.
We’ll be meeting every Tuesday and Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM at Immigration Court at 100 Montgomery. We need all hands on deck. The 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM window is when we most need to boost turnout, but if you can’t make that please come whenever works for you. 1 or 2 hours or the entire time!
Maker Friday: Zine Edition
Come make with us on Friday, September 19 from 7:00-9:00 PMat 1916 McAllister St! We’ll be making zines about socialism, organizing, and our reflections/hopes/dreams. Masks required and provided. All are welcome, no experience necessary, see you there!
EWOC: Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is running a Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing course weekly in September (see below for schedule). Just like we did back in May, we’re getting a group to take the course together and benefit from in-person discussions and activities (at 1916 McAllister). If you’re interested, RSVP here! The goal is to have more people learn organizing skills, both for your own projects and for organizing with EWOC. Sessions run every week from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM on:
DSA SF x EBDSA: No Space for ICE Canvassing in Oakland Chinatown
The DSA SF Immigrant Justice Working Group and East Bay DSA Migrant Defense Working Group are leaving No Space for ICE!
Join us on Saturday, September 20, at 10:30 AM in Oakland’s Lincoln Square Park to provide Know Your Rights materials and educate local businesses and religious institutions on their rights in relation to ICE/DHS. This canvass will be EBDSA Migrant Defense’s first in Oakland Chinatown — and DSA SF’s Immigrant Justice is helping out! Meet at the sign for Lincoln Square Park for a brief training before we canvass in pairs or small groups.
Wear DSA merch if you can, or put a DSA pin on a visible part of your clothing.
Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee (ETOC) Training
This month the Tenant Organizing Working Group has been attending the Fall 2025 Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee (ETOC) training, a four-part series, offered by the national DSA Housing Justice Commission! In the first ETOC session, we learned about the four principles of social housing as well as tools and techniques we could employ in the course of our social investigation and class analysis of the tenants and landlords in our area. In session 2, we learned how to approach tenants about forming a union organizing committee, how to identify tenants who are most readily accepting of agitation and to mobilize to convince their neighbors, and generally getting our foot in the door to begin the process of making a tenants association or union.
We hope to see you join us for the upcoming ETOC session 3 on Saturday, September 20 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM either remotely via zoom or at our watch party at 399 Webster St at the Embassy. There will be snacks! All are welcome! Please get in touch with us at tenants@dsasf.org if you’d like to explore the ETOC materials.
📖 DSA SF Homelessness Working Group Reads: Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell
Join DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group as we read through Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell. We’ll be meeting every other Sunday evening starting in September for 4 or 5 sessions at 1916 McAllister. The next session is Sunday, September 21. For more info, register here: bit.ly/martacdand check the events calendar for latest details.
Tech Reading Group with Kickstarter Union Founder Clarissa Redwine
Come join DSA SF and Rideshare Drivers United on Wednesday, September 24 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at 1916 McAllister for our monthly tech reading group. We’ll be reading an article by Clarissa Redwine about the Kickstarter Union Campaign that started in 2016. Clarissa will also be making an appearance on Zoom to answer questions about her experience. RSVP here!
🐣 Immigrant Justice Court Action Orientation
Come one, come all to 1916 McAllister St for our court watch orientation! You’ll learn how we are resisting ICE , how you can help, and participate in a biweekly art build. Bring questions and anti-ICE slogans! This event will take place every-other week on Thursday’s starting at 7:00 PM and the next one is September 25!
Kashmir: Partition, Nationalism, and Global Fascism
Nationalism is rising all over the world, and violence as always is accompanying it. Nowhere is the genocidal logic of the nation-state more evident than in Israel’s occupation of Palestine, but it is not the only example that we must learn from. The Partition of India in 1947 and subsequent conflicts in South Asia have many similarities, and some important differences. Come join the DSA SF as we investigate the Kashmir Conflict, which flared up violently this spring, and its relationship to Hindu nationalism and the global fascist movement. We’ll be meeting Friday, September 26 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM at 1916 McAllister St.
Reportback: No Appetite for Apartheid Canvass 🍉
This last Saturday, Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialism Working Group had 27 people attend a canvass to partner with store owners to de-shelve products profiting off Israeli apartheid! We had so many new faces from many different orgs, even outside our coalition partners (AROC, DSA, JVP, Speak Out Socialist). We covered 8 turfs in Bernal Heights and Outer Mission, 32 stores in total, and also got some consumer pledge signatures. Join #palestine-solidarity on Slack for more information on the next canvass! Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Behind the Scenes
he Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC) regularly rotates duties among chapter members. This allows us to train new members in key duties that help keep the chapter running like organizing chapter meetings, keeping records updated, office cleanup, updating the DSA SF website and publishing the weekly newsletter. Members can view current CCC rotations.
Interested in helping with the newsletter or other day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running? Fill out the CCC help form.
🌹Saturday, September 13 (11:00 AM – 1:30 PM): 🐣 Emergency Tenant Organizing Committee Fall Cohort Training Party (In person at Radical Reading Room, 438 Haight)
🌹Tuesday, September 16 (6:00 PM – 7:30 PM): 🐣 What Is DSA? (In person at Ingleside Branch Library, 1298 Ocean Ave)
🌹Thursday, September 18 (7:30 PM – 9:30 PM): “Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights and Class Politics in San Francisco” – Tenant Organizing Working Group Reading Group (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Friday, September 19 (7:00 PM – 9:00 PM): 🐣 Maker Friday (In person at 1916 McAllister)
🌹Monday, September 22 (7:00 PM – 8:00 PM): Labor Board x Divestment Priority Meeting (Zoom and in person at 1916 McAllister)
Check out https://dev.dsasf.org/events for more events and updates. Events with a 🐣 are especially new-member-friendly!
ICE Out of SF Courts!
Join neighbors, activists, grassroots organizations in resisting ICE abductions happening at immigration court hearings! ICE is taking anyone indiscriminately in order to meet their daily quotas. Many of those taken include people with no removal proceedings.
We’ll be meeting every Tuesday and Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM at Immigration Court at 100 Montgomery. We need all hands on deck. The 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM window is when we most need to boost turnout, but if you can’t make that please come whenever works for you. 1 or 2 hours or the entire time!
Say NO to AB 715!
SAY NO TO AB 715! The California Senate Education Committee will be holding a hearing on AB 715, a very dangerous bill that aims to censor criticism of Israel from K-12 public education across the state. This bill comes straight out of the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther playbook. Scott Wiener has been pushing this bill for several months now, and it is essential for comrades and allies in the pro-Palestine movement to turn out to oppose this draconian measure.
The hearing will now take place on the week of September 8 at 1021 O St, Sacramento with exact date TBD. We need to be ready to mobilize in large numbers to say NO. If you are able to make this hearing to voice your opposition, please reply to this RSVP.
Tell your reps to vote against AB 715! ✊
AB 715 is an extremely dangerous bill designed to censor any criticism of Israel and education about Palestine in California schools, by framing it as antisemitic.
For instance, AB 715 defines the following things as antisemitic:
“Language […] denying the right of Israel to exist”
“Labeling Israel a settler colonial state”
“Denigration of people who believe Zionism is inherent to Jewish identity”
On Saturday, September 13 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, we will be doing a training on how to talk to stores in your neighborhood, then going out and talking with stores together! Meet at 1916 McAllister. RSVP here.
No Appetite for Apartheid is a campaign aimed at reducing economic support for Israeli apartheid by canvassing local businesses to boycott Israeli goods. Come and canvass local businesses with the Palestine Solidarity and Anti-Imperialist Working Group!
EWOC: Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is running a Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing course weekly in September (see below for schedule). Just like we did back in May, we’re getting a group to take the course together and benefit from in-person discussions and activities (at 1916 McAllister). If you’re interested, RSVP here! The goal is to have more people learn organizing skills, both for your own projects and for organizing with EWOC. Sessions run every week from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM on:
Come out to the office at 1916 McAllister every Wednesday at 6:00 PM (except Wednesday, September 10 due to the chapter meeting)to help us make signs, learn about how we are resisting ICE, and discover how you can help. It’s a great time to meet like-minded people and ask any questions you might have before court actions!
DSA SF x EBDSA: No Space for ICE Canvassing in Oakland Chinatown
The DSA SF Immigrant Justice Working Group and East Bay DSA Migrant Defense Working Group are leaving No Space for ICE!
Join us on Saturday, September 20, at 10:30 AM in Oakland’s Lincoln Square Park to provide Know Your Rights materials and educate local businesses and religious institutions on their rights in relation to ICE/DHS. This canvass will be EBDSA Migrant Defense’s first in Oakland Chinatown — and DSA SF’s Immigrant Justice is helping out! Meet at the sign for Lincoln Square Park for a brief training before we canvass in pairs or small groups.
Wear DSA merch if you can, or put a DSA pin on a visible part of your clothing.
📖 DSA SF Homelessness Working Group Reads: Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell
Join DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group as we read through Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell. We’ll be meeting every other Sunday evening starting in September for 4 or 5 sessions at 1916 McAllister. The next session is Sunday, September 21. For more info, register here: bit.ly/martacdand check the events calendar for latest details.
Tech Reading Group with Kickstarter Union Founder Clarissa Redwine
Come join DSA SF and Rideshare Drivers United on Wednesday, September 24 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at 1916 McAllister for our monthly tech reading group. We’ll be reading an article by Clarissa Redwine about the Kickstarter Union Campaign that started in 2016. Clarissa will also be making an appearance on Zoom to answer questions about her experience. RSVP here!
Behind the Scenes
he Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC) regularly rotates duties among chapter members. This allows us to train new members in key duties that help keep the chapter running like organizing chapter meetings, keeping records updated, office cleanup, updating the DSA SF website and publishing the weekly newsletter. Members can view current CCC rotations.
Interested in helping with the newsletter or other day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running? Fill out the CCC help form.
Check out https://dev.dsasf.org/events for more events and updates. Events with a 🐣 are especially new-member-friendly!
ICE Out of SF Courts!
Join neighbors, activists, grassroots organizations in resisting ICE abductions happening at immigration court hearings! ICE is taking anyone indiscriminately in order to meet their daily quotas. Many of those taken include people with no removal proceedings.
We’ll be meeting every Tuesday and Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM at Immigration Court at 100 Montgomery. We need all hands on deck. The 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM window is when we most need to boost turnout, but if you can’t make that please come whenever works for you. 1 or 2 hours or the entire time!
Court Action Orientation
Come out to the office at 1916 McAllister every Wednesday at 6:00 PM to help us make signs, learn about how we are resisting ICE, and discover how you can help. It’s a great time to meet like-minded people and ask any questions you might have before court actions!
Say NO to AB 715!
SAY NO TO AB 715! The California Senate Education Committee will be holding a hearing on AB 715, a very dangerous bill that aims to censor criticism of Israel from K-12 public education across the state. This bill comes straight out of the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther playbook. Scott Wiener has been pushing this bill for several months now, and it is essential for comrades and allies in the pro-Palestine movement to turn out to oppose this draconian measure.
The hearing will now take place on the week of September 8 at 1021 O St, Sacramento with exact date TBD (note that the original tentative date of September 2nd or 3rd has been postponed). We still need to be ready to mobilize in large numbers to say NO. Please be ready to mobilize! If you are able to make this hearing to voice your opposition, please reply to this RSVP.
📖 DSA SF Homelessness Working Group Reads: Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell
Join DSA SF’s Homelessness Working Group as we read through Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell. We’ll be meeting at 1916 McAllister starting September 7th at 5:30 PM and running every other week for 4 or 5 sessions. For more info, register here: bit.ly/martacd
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) is running a Fundamentals of Workplace Organizing course weekly in September (see below for schedule). Just like we did back in May, we’re getting a group to take the course together and benefit from in-person discussions and activities (at 1916 McAllister). If you’re interested, fill out the form here! The goal is to have more people learn organizing skills, both for your own projects and for organizing with EWOC. Sessions run every week from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM on:
Tech Reading Group with Kickstarter Union Founder Clarissa Redwine
Come join DSA SF, TWC, BAL4P, and RDU tech workers on Wednesday, September 24th from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM for our monthly tech reading group. We’ll be reading an article by Clarissa Redwine about the Kickstarter Union Campaign that started in 2016. Clarissa will also be making an appearance on Zoom to answer questions about her experience. This is a hybrid event, with in-person attendance at 1916 McAllister and remote attendance on Zoom.
The Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC) regularly rotates duties among chapter members. This allows us to train new members in key duties that help keep the chapter running like organizing chapter meetings, keeping records updated, office cleanup, updating the DSA SF website and publishing the weekly newsletter. Members can view current CCC rotations.
Interested in helping with the newsletter or other day-to-day tasks that keep the chapter running? Fill out the CCC help form.
